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Jordan Jones
JoAnne Opsahl
Jane Ann Wight
Three NSC students face marijuana charges;
pending bill changes offense to misdemeanor
Northern State College EXPONE `NORTHERN'S STUDENT VOICE'
Volume 67, No. 19 Northern State College — Aberdeen, South Dakota 57401 February 27, 1969
Sharon Briscoe Sharon Jameson
Five finalists compete
for title of Cover Girl
FIVE FINALISTS have been select-ed
out of a field of 25 entries in the
15th annual Cover Girl contest, spon-sored
by the Exponent staff.
The five Northern women chosen as
finalists are Sharon Jameson, Willow
Lake junior, sponsored by the Indust-rial
Education Club; Jane Ann Wight,
Watertown freshman, sponsored by
Epsilon Pi Tau, international honorary
Industrial Arts fraternity; Jordan Jones,
Timber Lake freshman, sponsored by
Briscoe Hall; JoAnne Opsahl, Ipswich
junior, sponsored by Circle K; and
Sharon Briscoe, Meadow sophomore,
sponsored by United Campus Ministry.
Philo Hall, circuit court judge from
Aberdeen, will select Northern's new
cover girl from the five finalists. The
winner of the contest, who will be
announced in the March 6 issue of the
Exponent, will be entered in the Min-neapolis
Tribune Cover Girl Contest.
The other entrants and their sponsor-ing
organizations are as follows: Julie
Sherman, Roslyn sophomore, sponsored
by the Association of Childhood Edu-cation;
Sherry Smolik, Rapid City jun-ior,
sponsored by the junior class; Lin-da
Homer, Sioux Falls junior, sponsor-ed
by Young Democrats; Darrilyn Nel-son,
Aberdeen junior, sponsored by
A GROUP of Student Senators met
with Dr. Dennis Kraft, director of
Student Teaching, on Monday to dis_
cuss the current personal appearance
resolution introduced by Pat Carey,
Sioux Falls senior, at last week's Sen-ate
meeting.
The resolution reads, "Resolved:
That the Student Senate of Northern
State College feels that the education
department restrictions on a student's
personal appearance should not be en-forced
until the student is practice
teaching. Be it further resolved that
the Senate feels Dr. Kraft has disre-garded
the resolution passed by Stu-dent
Senate and approved by the
Faculty Council."
The proposal seemed to be the focal
point of controversy between the edu-cation
department and many students.
Fran Hill, Alexandria senior, Gary
Bertsch, Miller senior, and Carey repre-sented
Senate.
Dr. Kraft defended his views by
stating, "We have 401 student teachers
going out, and I know of none of the
cooperating schools that we work with
that would allow student teachers in
their schools with this type of appear-ance."
"High schools are different than col-leges,
and I am high school orientated.
These students are here to be pre-pared
to be high school teachers. I am
not going to misrepresent high school
teaching."
Dr. Kraft went on to discuss his
theory of teaching as related to per-sonal
appearance. "I believe strongly
that the idea that 'my body, my bed,
and my morals are no one's business'
is not applicable in the teaching pro-fession.
Teachers generally are a ser-vice-
oriented group, and therefore,
their lives are not always their own.
They live in a glass house."
"My feeling is that if students are
going to be teachers and good teachers,
they have to realize this before they
go into education, or they won't be
happy there."
Bertsch called it a "lack of communi-cation"
between the education depart:
ment and the students. Fran Hill noted
Student National Education Associa-tion;
Francene Day, Redfield senior,
sponsored by Sigma Alpha Iota; Mari-lyn
Stam, Pollock junior, sponsored by
Lincoln Hall; Jeanne Feldhaus, How-ard
freshman, Graham Hall represen-tative;
Jean Sears, Watertown fresh-man,
senior class representative.
Carol Wolfe, Pierre freshman, Mc-
Arthur-Welsh representative; Deborah
Spaulding, Huron junior, Young Re-publican
representative; Kathy Gillen,
White Lake sophomore, sponsored by
Business Club; Jane Waddell, Isabel
freshman, sponsored by Northern Chris_
tian Fellowship; Cheri Smith, Agar
junior, sponsored by Delta Phi Delta;
Collette Ries, Groton sophomore, spon-sored
by Physical Education Majors
and Minors Club.
Fran Gellerman, Aberdeen sopho-more,
Howling Echo representative;
Linda Carlson, Beresford sophomore,
Phi Mu Alpha-Sinfonia representative;
Mary Nahnsen, Winner sophomore,
Sociology Club representative; Paulette
Braley, Sioux Falls freshman, Lindberg
Hall representative; Corinne Aaker,
Redfield junior, sponsored by Lutheran
Students Association; and Judy San-den,
Sisseton freshman, sponsored by
Kramer Hall.
that many students do not realize that
the education department feels that the
application to student teaching is a
"contract."
Bertsch added, "I see his point, and
I can understand why he believes as
he does. When you sign up for teacher
education, you sign a contract, and
many students fail to realize that."
Both Miss Hill and Carey maintain
that students should be allowed to
make their own decisions regarding
personal appearance, at least prior to
student teaching. Miss Hill stated, "I
respect Dr. Kraft's opinion in that he
views physical appearance as one of
the basic aspects of overt behavior of
teachers. I think the status quo will
eventually change."
Carey asserted, "I don't believe that
one man should make the rule for
every man in the department. This rule
should not go on a year before a
student practice teaches. I can under-stand
it when a student is practice
teaching, but not before."
"As it was interpreted to me," Dr.
Kraft concluded, "this was a preoga_
tive of the individual instructor, and
I ame merely cxercizing that preoga-tive."
Blue Key sponsors
night of 'gambling'
CASINO NIGHT, sponsored by
Blue Key national honorary fraternity,
begins Saturday at 8 p.m. in the Union
Ballroom.
All students are invited to the even-ing
of fun and gambling. Fifty cents
in real money will enable you to spend
$500 in "fun" money. At the end of
the evening, the man and woman who
have accumulated the largest fortune
will each receive a $10 gift certificate.
If you lose your "life savings," Blue
Key will grubstake you with another
$500.
Northern "bunnies" will distribute
free cigarettes, and music will add to
the night club atmosphere. Such riske
drinks as "coke on the rcoks" and
"double 7-ups" will be served.
by Catherine Newman
Exponent Reporter
SIX PERSONS, three of them Nor-thern
State College students, appeared
in Aberdeen Municipal Court Monday,
Feb. 17, to face charges of possessing
a narcotic — marijuana. One of the
six was also charged with selling of
a narcotic. These are the first narcotics
charges involving NSC students.
NSC students arrested were Marie
Barondeau, 20, of Onaka; Margaret
Hild, 20, of Smithtown, New York;
and Linda Helvik, 20, Planlcinton, all
charged with possession.
Others are David Hull, 18, Fargo;
John Trygstad, 26, Aberdeen, both
charged with possession; and John
Ruckman Jr., 20, of Aberdeen, arrest-ed
on two counts, possession and
selling of a narcotic.
Ruckman was placed under $2,500
bond on the selling charge, and $1,500
bond on the possession count. The
others were placed under $1,500 bonds.
According to the district attorney's
office, preliminary hearings for all six
persons will probably be held Tuesday,
March 4.
Trygstad is currently undergoing a
pre-sentence investigation on a pre-vious
narcotics charge. He was arraign-ed
for this offense Tuesday, Feb. 11,
and entered a plea of guilty. The pre-siding
judge, Sigurd Anderson, ordered
the investigation, a device used to find
out about the background of the ac-cused.
This is taken into account be-fore
passing sentence. The investiga-tion
is being conducted by Gordon
Stanford, state parole officer.
Three possibilities are open to the
court, said Judge Anderson, with refer-ence
to sentencing a first offender.
1. An individual found guilty of a
narcotics charge may be sentenced.
2. He may receive a suspended sen-tence.
3. He may be put on probation in
lieu of sentence.
"Penalties are very severe in this
state," said Judge Anderson. But, "ac-cording
to authorities in the field,
marijuana is a very bad and destruc-tive
weed."
Marijuana is classified in South Da.
kota as a narcotic, and any narcotics
offense constitutes a felony.
The narcotics law provides for the
following penalties:
A first offender convicted on a
charge of possessing narcotics is fined,
according to law, not more than
$5,000 and may be sentenced to a two
to five year prison term.
A second offender is subject to a fine
of no more than $10,000 and must
serve five to ten 'years.
The third, and subsequent, offenses,
"shall be fined $20,000 and sentenced
to no less than ten nor more than 20
years."
Except for the first offense, no sus-pension,
probation, or parole may be
granted until the minimum imprison-ment
term has been served.
Penalties for pushers, who are legal-ly
defined as those who carry on the
illegal sale, exchange, barter, supply-ing,
or giving away of narcotic drugs,
are even more severe:
A first offender may be fined no
more than $10,000 and is sentenced to
five to ten years' imprisonment.
A second offender is subject to the
same penalty as is a third offender con-victed
on a possession charge.
A new bill which would make the
first offense for possession a misde-ineanor
rather than a felony is pending
in the Senate, having passed in the
House last week.
Sam Masten, Canton attorney and
former president of the state bar asso-ciation,
is pressing for acceptance of
the bill. Masten believes the present
law to be too harsh and says it doesn't
reach the person who should be reach-ed
— the pusher.
The existing law makes a criminal
out of the first offender, he points out,
and "This follows them the rest of
their lives."
Moreover, it has been said that the
Do you favor the establishment of a
ten-watt educational FM radio station
at Northern State College? Fifty-six per
cent of Northern students who were
asked this question replied "yes."
This question was one of several
asked in a recent questionnaire sent
out by the Student Senate FM Com-mittee.
Eight hundred surveys were
sent out, and 293 were returned. Eight
per cent of the student body was sur-veyed.
Total number of on-campus students
surveyed was 163, or 13.7 per cent
of the total number of students. Off-campus
students surveyed was 130.
This is 6.5 per cent of their total. The
numbers surveyed by classes were:
freshman, 84; sophomore, 76; junior
67; senior, 61; graduate, 4.
Another question on the FM survey
asked which hours of the day stu-dents
would be most likely to listen
to an FM station. The answers to this
question revealed a preference for
present law is so harsh that some of-ficials
hesitate to make arrests.
Michael Strain, an attorney for
the state, is in favor of retaining the
present law, since marijuana is becom-ing
more and more of a problem in
the state.
Under the proposed law, second and
subsequent offenders would still be
guilty of a felony. The law, if passed,
would not go into efefct until July 1,
and would not be retroactive. That is
to say, an individual might commit a
narcotics offense in June, 1969, and
not be caught until several months
later; yet when brought to trial, the
old narcotics penalties would still ap-ply
to him, said Judge Anderson.
Marijuana offenses for many years
were small in number in South Dakota,
according to Judge Anderson. However,
the incidence is rising, he said.
Chester Rollins, detective in charge
of the case, stated that, according to
FBI reports, on a national average, 30
to 50 per cent of college students
smoke at least one marijuana cigarette
while in college. "This area of South
Dakota was relatively unaffected by
it until about a year ago," said Rollins.
The Division of Criminal Investiga-tion,
out of Pierre, and the Brown
County sheriff's office are cooperating
on the present case with the municipal
police force.
evening hours. The most popular time
appeared to be from 5 p.m. to 12 p.m.
'Do you now own an FM radio?"
The survey revealed that 110 students,
or 38.6 per cent of those surveyed had
an FM radio. Thirty-two per cent of
those who don't have an FM radio
now said they would buy one if an
FM station were set up.
Fifty-five students, or 19 per cent
of the number surveyed, said that
they would donate their time to an
FM station. Breaking this down by class
we get 15 freshmen, 18 sophomores,
13 juniors, 8 seniors, and one graduate
student. When asked to state a posi-tion
they could fill the students listed
several, from announcer to cleaning
lady, to director of beer socials.
What did the survey show? John J.
Biegler, Aberdeen graduate student
and FM committee member, said, "This
survey showed that a considerable num_
ber of students have a real interest
in the FM radio issue."
Senators, Dr. Kraft debate new
student appearance resolution
Student sampling shows
favorable reaction to FM

Jordan Jones
JoAnne Opsahl
Jane Ann Wight
Three NSC students face marijuana charges;
pending bill changes offense to misdemeanor
Northern State College EXPONE `NORTHERN'S STUDENT VOICE'
Volume 67, No. 19 Northern State College — Aberdeen, South Dakota 57401 February 27, 1969
Sharon Briscoe Sharon Jameson
Five finalists compete
for title of Cover Girl
FIVE FINALISTS have been select-ed
out of a field of 25 entries in the
15th annual Cover Girl contest, spon-sored
by the Exponent staff.
The five Northern women chosen as
finalists are Sharon Jameson, Willow
Lake junior, sponsored by the Indust-rial
Education Club; Jane Ann Wight,
Watertown freshman, sponsored by
Epsilon Pi Tau, international honorary
Industrial Arts fraternity; Jordan Jones,
Timber Lake freshman, sponsored by
Briscoe Hall; JoAnne Opsahl, Ipswich
junior, sponsored by Circle K; and
Sharon Briscoe, Meadow sophomore,
sponsored by United Campus Ministry.
Philo Hall, circuit court judge from
Aberdeen, will select Northern's new
cover girl from the five finalists. The
winner of the contest, who will be
announced in the March 6 issue of the
Exponent, will be entered in the Min-neapolis
Tribune Cover Girl Contest.
The other entrants and their sponsor-ing
organizations are as follows: Julie
Sherman, Roslyn sophomore, sponsored
by the Association of Childhood Edu-cation;
Sherry Smolik, Rapid City jun-ior,
sponsored by the junior class; Lin-da
Homer, Sioux Falls junior, sponsor-ed
by Young Democrats; Darrilyn Nel-son,
Aberdeen junior, sponsored by
A GROUP of Student Senators met
with Dr. Dennis Kraft, director of
Student Teaching, on Monday to dis_
cuss the current personal appearance
resolution introduced by Pat Carey,
Sioux Falls senior, at last week's Sen-ate
meeting.
The resolution reads, "Resolved:
That the Student Senate of Northern
State College feels that the education
department restrictions on a student's
personal appearance should not be en-forced
until the student is practice
teaching. Be it further resolved that
the Senate feels Dr. Kraft has disre-garded
the resolution passed by Stu-dent
Senate and approved by the
Faculty Council."
The proposal seemed to be the focal
point of controversy between the edu-cation
department and many students.
Fran Hill, Alexandria senior, Gary
Bertsch, Miller senior, and Carey repre-sented
Senate.
Dr. Kraft defended his views by
stating, "We have 401 student teachers
going out, and I know of none of the
cooperating schools that we work with
that would allow student teachers in
their schools with this type of appear-ance."
"High schools are different than col-leges,
and I am high school orientated.
These students are here to be pre-pared
to be high school teachers. I am
not going to misrepresent high school
teaching."
Dr. Kraft went on to discuss his
theory of teaching as related to per-sonal
appearance. "I believe strongly
that the idea that 'my body, my bed,
and my morals are no one's business'
is not applicable in the teaching pro-fession.
Teachers generally are a ser-vice-
oriented group, and therefore,
their lives are not always their own.
They live in a glass house."
"My feeling is that if students are
going to be teachers and good teachers,
they have to realize this before they
go into education, or they won't be
happy there."
Bertsch called it a "lack of communi-cation"
between the education depart:
ment and the students. Fran Hill noted
Student National Education Associa-tion;
Francene Day, Redfield senior,
sponsored by Sigma Alpha Iota; Mari-lyn
Stam, Pollock junior, sponsored by
Lincoln Hall; Jeanne Feldhaus, How-ard
freshman, Graham Hall represen-tative;
Jean Sears, Watertown fresh-man,
senior class representative.
Carol Wolfe, Pierre freshman, Mc-
Arthur-Welsh representative; Deborah
Spaulding, Huron junior, Young Re-publican
representative; Kathy Gillen,
White Lake sophomore, sponsored by
Business Club; Jane Waddell, Isabel
freshman, sponsored by Northern Chris_
tian Fellowship; Cheri Smith, Agar
junior, sponsored by Delta Phi Delta;
Collette Ries, Groton sophomore, spon-sored
by Physical Education Majors
and Minors Club.
Fran Gellerman, Aberdeen sopho-more,
Howling Echo representative;
Linda Carlson, Beresford sophomore,
Phi Mu Alpha-Sinfonia representative;
Mary Nahnsen, Winner sophomore,
Sociology Club representative; Paulette
Braley, Sioux Falls freshman, Lindberg
Hall representative; Corinne Aaker,
Redfield junior, sponsored by Lutheran
Students Association; and Judy San-den,
Sisseton freshman, sponsored by
Kramer Hall.
that many students do not realize that
the education department feels that the
application to student teaching is a
"contract."
Bertsch added, "I see his point, and
I can understand why he believes as
he does. When you sign up for teacher
education, you sign a contract, and
many students fail to realize that."
Both Miss Hill and Carey maintain
that students should be allowed to
make their own decisions regarding
personal appearance, at least prior to
student teaching. Miss Hill stated, "I
respect Dr. Kraft's opinion in that he
views physical appearance as one of
the basic aspects of overt behavior of
teachers. I think the status quo will
eventually change."
Carey asserted, "I don't believe that
one man should make the rule for
every man in the department. This rule
should not go on a year before a
student practice teaches. I can under-stand
it when a student is practice
teaching, but not before."
"As it was interpreted to me," Dr.
Kraft concluded, "this was a preoga_
tive of the individual instructor, and
I ame merely cxercizing that preoga-tive."
Blue Key sponsors
night of 'gambling'
CASINO NIGHT, sponsored by
Blue Key national honorary fraternity,
begins Saturday at 8 p.m. in the Union
Ballroom.
All students are invited to the even-ing
of fun and gambling. Fifty cents
in real money will enable you to spend
$500 in "fun" money. At the end of
the evening, the man and woman who
have accumulated the largest fortune
will each receive a $10 gift certificate.
If you lose your "life savings," Blue
Key will grubstake you with another
$500.
Northern "bunnies" will distribute
free cigarettes, and music will add to
the night club atmosphere. Such riske
drinks as "coke on the rcoks" and
"double 7-ups" will be served.
by Catherine Newman
Exponent Reporter
SIX PERSONS, three of them Nor-thern
State College students, appeared
in Aberdeen Municipal Court Monday,
Feb. 17, to face charges of possessing
a narcotic — marijuana. One of the
six was also charged with selling of
a narcotic. These are the first narcotics
charges involving NSC students.
NSC students arrested were Marie
Barondeau, 20, of Onaka; Margaret
Hild, 20, of Smithtown, New York;
and Linda Helvik, 20, Planlcinton, all
charged with possession.
Others are David Hull, 18, Fargo;
John Trygstad, 26, Aberdeen, both
charged with possession; and John
Ruckman Jr., 20, of Aberdeen, arrest-ed
on two counts, possession and
selling of a narcotic.
Ruckman was placed under $2,500
bond on the selling charge, and $1,500
bond on the possession count. The
others were placed under $1,500 bonds.
According to the district attorney's
office, preliminary hearings for all six
persons will probably be held Tuesday,
March 4.
Trygstad is currently undergoing a
pre-sentence investigation on a pre-vious
narcotics charge. He was arraign-ed
for this offense Tuesday, Feb. 11,
and entered a plea of guilty. The pre-siding
judge, Sigurd Anderson, ordered
the investigation, a device used to find
out about the background of the ac-cused.
This is taken into account be-fore
passing sentence. The investiga-tion
is being conducted by Gordon
Stanford, state parole officer.
Three possibilities are open to the
court, said Judge Anderson, with refer-ence
to sentencing a first offender.
1. An individual found guilty of a
narcotics charge may be sentenced.
2. He may receive a suspended sen-tence.
3. He may be put on probation in
lieu of sentence.
"Penalties are very severe in this
state," said Judge Anderson. But, "ac-cording
to authorities in the field,
marijuana is a very bad and destruc-tive
weed."
Marijuana is classified in South Da.
kota as a narcotic, and any narcotics
offense constitutes a felony.
The narcotics law provides for the
following penalties:
A first offender convicted on a
charge of possessing narcotics is fined,
according to law, not more than
$5,000 and may be sentenced to a two
to five year prison term.
A second offender is subject to a fine
of no more than $10,000 and must
serve five to ten 'years.
The third, and subsequent, offenses,
"shall be fined $20,000 and sentenced
to no less than ten nor more than 20
years."
Except for the first offense, no sus-pension,
probation, or parole may be
granted until the minimum imprison-ment
term has been served.
Penalties for pushers, who are legal-ly
defined as those who carry on the
illegal sale, exchange, barter, supply-ing,
or giving away of narcotic drugs,
are even more severe:
A first offender may be fined no
more than $10,000 and is sentenced to
five to ten years' imprisonment.
A second offender is subject to the
same penalty as is a third offender con-victed
on a possession charge.
A new bill which would make the
first offense for possession a misde-ineanor
rather than a felony is pending
in the Senate, having passed in the
House last week.
Sam Masten, Canton attorney and
former president of the state bar asso-ciation,
is pressing for acceptance of
the bill. Masten believes the present
law to be too harsh and says it doesn't
reach the person who should be reach-ed
— the pusher.
The existing law makes a criminal
out of the first offender, he points out,
and "This follows them the rest of
their lives."
Moreover, it has been said that the
Do you favor the establishment of a
ten-watt educational FM radio station
at Northern State College? Fifty-six per
cent of Northern students who were
asked this question replied "yes."
This question was one of several
asked in a recent questionnaire sent
out by the Student Senate FM Com-mittee.
Eight hundred surveys were
sent out, and 293 were returned. Eight
per cent of the student body was sur-veyed.
Total number of on-campus students
surveyed was 163, or 13.7 per cent
of the total number of students. Off-campus
students surveyed was 130.
This is 6.5 per cent of their total. The
numbers surveyed by classes were:
freshman, 84; sophomore, 76; junior
67; senior, 61; graduate, 4.
Another question on the FM survey
asked which hours of the day stu-dents
would be most likely to listen
to an FM station. The answers to this
question revealed a preference for
present law is so harsh that some of-ficials
hesitate to make arrests.
Michael Strain, an attorney for
the state, is in favor of retaining the
present law, since marijuana is becom-ing
more and more of a problem in
the state.
Under the proposed law, second and
subsequent offenders would still be
guilty of a felony. The law, if passed,
would not go into efefct until July 1,
and would not be retroactive. That is
to say, an individual might commit a
narcotics offense in June, 1969, and
not be caught until several months
later; yet when brought to trial, the
old narcotics penalties would still ap-ply
to him, said Judge Anderson.
Marijuana offenses for many years
were small in number in South Dakota,
according to Judge Anderson. However,
the incidence is rising, he said.
Chester Rollins, detective in charge
of the case, stated that, according to
FBI reports, on a national average, 30
to 50 per cent of college students
smoke at least one marijuana cigarette
while in college. "This area of South
Dakota was relatively unaffected by
it until about a year ago," said Rollins.
The Division of Criminal Investiga-tion,
out of Pierre, and the Brown
County sheriff's office are cooperating
on the present case with the municipal
police force.
evening hours. The most popular time
appeared to be from 5 p.m. to 12 p.m.
'Do you now own an FM radio?"
The survey revealed that 110 students,
or 38.6 per cent of those surveyed had
an FM radio. Thirty-two per cent of
those who don't have an FM radio
now said they would buy one if an
FM station were set up.
Fifty-five students, or 19 per cent
of the number surveyed, said that
they would donate their time to an
FM station. Breaking this down by class
we get 15 freshmen, 18 sophomores,
13 juniors, 8 seniors, and one graduate
student. When asked to state a posi-tion
they could fill the students listed
several, from announcer to cleaning
lady, to director of beer socials.
What did the survey show? John J.
Biegler, Aberdeen graduate student
and FM committee member, said, "This
survey showed that a considerable num_
ber of students have a real interest
in the FM radio issue."
Senators, Dr. Kraft debate new
student appearance resolution
Student sampling shows
favorable reaction to FM